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Yeah, it tends to be one of the less talked about things in the US. Even conservatives that talk about cutting the budget, seem to blind to the rising health care cost even though, at this point the US government spends more on medicare & medicaid than even the military by a large margin and that is not even talking State Health care expenditures, which can be pretty high as well. It is ludicrious how much we spend on it, as we are pretty much approaching socialized countries health care expenditures and even exceeding them in certain cases at the governmental level on a supposedly private system that still have to purchase ourselves.

Yeah and insurance sucks. I spending $300 a month for insurance that pretty much covers nothing until I meet a $8,000 out of pocket and the cost of anything is mind boggling. I mean, even the price to do something routine like put a cast on a broken bone can cost up to $14,000. Gosh forbid you have to do any surgical procedure that can run in the $100,000's. I just don't know where all this money is going. It certainly is not going to the doctors, they would be all scrouge mcduck rich at the prices that insurance charges for these things and the insurance still thinks they are cost too much and wants to replace them with Nurse Practitioners all the time. It just seems like a massive scam at this point

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